Justin Erickson
Justin Erickson is the newest addition to the Rue Morgue gallery of ghouls. Before coming on board, Justin toiled as a freelance illustrator/graphic designer collaborating with Chad Michael Ward and contributing work to such companies as White Wolf Publishing. Growing up with a graveyard as a playground, Justin developed an unhealthy appetite for monsters, horror movies and human flesh.
Justin Erickson on July 5, 2010 |
Category: Creepy Culture
This great foreign poster for Alexandre Aja’s upcoming remake of Piranha was just released, and it’s awesome! A total homage to the original’s poster (which itself was an homage/rip-off of the Jaws poster) by John Solie. Love those faux poster folds!.
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Justin Erickson on June 18, 2010 |
Category: News and Events
The fine folks at CGSociety –a community for digital artists– held a contest a couple months ago tasking their creepy community to create the weirdest and craziest bit of B-Movie schlock they could. The finalists have been announced, and they couldn’t be cooler! From space zombie mummies to rampaging cavemen (that’s mad as heck), the winners not only captured everything we love about B-Movies, but also created absolutely astounding work. The talent on display in the fake trailers and posters make you wish that these were real movies coming out!
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Justin Erickson on February 23, 2010 |
Category: News and Events
Calling all Toronto area comic book nerds: this weekend has something to look forward to, the Toronto ComiCON. But for the horror-loving comic nerds (like myself) there’s something cooler going on off-site: Of Mystery and the Macabre: The Guy Davis Exhibition This Saturday, February the 27th, one of my favourite comic artists, Guy Davis is [...]
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Justin Erickson on January 7, 2010 |
Category: News and Events
The holiday season is over, the tree taken down, knotted Christmas lights return to their basement dwellings and those damned carols have finally ceased to make our ears bleed and tempers flare. That doesn’t make this gingerbread house (err, church?) any less cool, though. Nicholas Daley and friends made this zombie apocalypse interpreted through ginger bread and sweets for an office competition. Check out the link for more pictures and the shocking conclusion of the contest.
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Justin Erickson on October 1, 2009 |
Category: News and Events
I make it no secret that I dislike Twilight. Friends, family, my girlfriend, random strangers, pets… all have heard me make fun of it at one point or another. It has a huge fan base, but so does Nickelback which doesn’t make it any less super lame. Check out this little video from the folks [...]
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Justin Erickson on June 30, 2009 |
Category: News and Events
We here are Rue Morgue are big fans of Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps. We even brought Mr. Dekker up a couple years ago to one of our Cinemacabre screeings here in Toronto to screen the film. It has almost everything you could want in a horror movie: weird aliens, slug creatures, zombies, babes, [...]
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Justin Erickson on August 28, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
Now this is a horror fan!
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Justin Erickson on May 23, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
The only editing in this image was to highlight the document size. Everything else was how I opened it in Photoshop. DUN DUN DUNNNNN
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Justin Erickson on May 2, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
Tonight is the night, my fiends! When the clock strikes 8, and the moon is out, the PIN-UP GHOULS will crawl up from their tombs and haunt The Gladstone Hotel for the evening! A collection of 20 brand new horror pin-up girl illustrations by Rue Morgue graphic designer, Justin Erickson. Limited edition prints will be [...]
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Justin Erickson on April 11, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
OMGhorror.com is quickly becoming one of my favourite websites for horror goodness. Today I happened across a list they compiled of the top 27 (?) Horror Comedies, which are some of the most re-watchable and fun movies out there. Major extra points for including The Burbs, an office favourite. #27: Fright Night #26: Buffy the [...]
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Justin Erickson on February 8, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
No not the Gus van Sant shot for shot recreation of Psycho, which still perplexes me to this day. Vanity Fair recently put (current issue maybe?) a photo series of iconic Hitchcock scenes using modern day actors and actresses. Not crappy D list celebrities either, they managed to pull quite a few A listers. I’m [...]
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Justin Erickson on January 28, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
Livescience.com has a pretty interesting little list about weird ways different cultures the world over deal with death and the disposal of the dead. 10. Towers of Silence Zoroastrians believe the body is impure and shouldn’t pollute the earth after death through burial or cremation. Instead, the deceased are brought to a ceremonial “tower of [...]
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Justin Erickson on January 25, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
Irony is delicious isn’t it? I have serious problems with censoring. As an artist myself, I believe that a final work of an artist/writer/director/etc intends should be seen/read/experienced as it’s meant to. When suits and sexually repressed fuck-wads filter out material a select few deem “offensive”, it rapes the work’s integrity and molests the artist’s [...]
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Justin Erickson on November 14, 2007 |
Category: News and Events
According to these people: http://slideshow.dallasobserver.com/index.php?gallery=22732&type=1¤t=0 Most of the bands and covers you expect to see are in there, like Cannibal Corpse, Impaled and Exhumed. But the cover that makes them all look like Anne Geddes photographs is Phil Collins’ But Seriously .
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Justin Erickson on October 30, 2007 |
Category: News and Events
For my first (long overdue) blog post, I’d like to remind you all of the 69th anniversary of Orson Welles’ infamous adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The War of the Worlds has been adapted a number of times, most recently with the over-stuffed special effects demo reel directed by Steven Spielberg. [...]
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